People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — Editorial Notes. [ARTICLE]

Editorial Notes.

All eyes on St. Louis. * * * Stand to your guns brothers. * * * The populists will be a factor in this campaign. * * * Every true populist demands the preservation of his party. * * * The democratic party does not indorse Hoke Smith's pension policy. * * * The St. Louis convention on the 22 inst. is the time and place to first express well-matured opinions. * * * A platform opposed to national banks and a national banker upon it for vice president. Happy thought. * * * Fear not, faithful defenders of American liberty, the people’s party has not sold its birthright for a mess of pottage. * "K * Congress has killed eleven silver bills within as many years. And yet, like Bancos’ ghost, silver will not down. * * * There is now but a few days for study as to the best policy to be pursued for the accommplishmeht of the noble purposes of the party. * * * Who is Sewall? Evidently the nomination sought the man this time. Five days ago not one person in twenty thousand knew of his existence. * * * Governor Kolb, of Alabama, expresses the belief that Aryan’s nomination will be endorsed by the populists at St. Louis, but that they will repudiate Sewall. * * * Suppose Bryan should meet a Giteau after becoming president, how would the national bank millionaire suit you? Think about it brothers before you commit any grevious error. * *

It would be good policy for populists to refrain from expressions too hastely formed, possibly due more to the excitement occasioned by the recent action of the old parties than to mature thought. * * * For years the people’s party has advocated the free coinage of silver, and have educated the people upon the money question up to the point of intelligence that causes Shylock to tremble in his boots. * * * The Hon. Garret A. Hobart, vice-president nominee of the republican party, is a modest man. He compares himself to a fly on a big wheel. McKinley is the wheel—the fly wheel of the republican party. * * * The republican leaders met at Indianapolis and resolved to reb ,el against McKinley and Hanna’s dictation as to the issues to be discussed. In Indiana the issue is to be 16 to 1 and 60,000 majority,—Fpwler Leader.